Evening Clothes

1927 film by Luther Reed

March 19, 1927 (1927-03-19)

Running time

7 reels
(6,287 feet)CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Evening Clothes is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Luther Reed that was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released by Paramount.

Plot

Cast

Adolphe Menjou as Lucien D'Artois
Virginia Valli as Germaine
Noah Beery as Lazarre
Louise Brooks as Fox Trot
Arnold Kent as Henri (credited as Lido Manetti)
André Cheron as Germaine's father
Marcia Harris as Miss Streeter
Mario Carillo
Lilyan Tashman

Production background

The film is based on the 1920 play L'homme en habit (The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre Picard and Yves Mirande. Directed by Luther Reed, the film starred Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Valli, and Louise Brooks and is currently considered a lost film.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Production took place January 3 through 29, 1927. The film was shot at Paramount’s studio in Hollywood, and at the Graf Brothers Studio in San Mateo, California and Kohl Estate in nearby Burlingame, California. Pre-release Paramount production records list the length at 7 reels (6,252 feet) for the domestic release, and 7 reels (6,204 feet) for the foreign release.^[4]

As part of Paramount's production of multiple-language versions of its films, two remakes were made in 1931 at the Joinville Studios in Paris, the Spanish-language film A Gentleman in Tails and the French-language film The Man in Evening Clothes.

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Evening Clothes at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
^ The Man in Evening Clothes (upon which the film is based) as produced on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre December 5, 1924; 11 performances; IBDb.com
^ "Evening Clothes (filmography page)". Louise Brooks Society. Retrieved May 15, 2024.